Michelle Dalton > Quotes

“A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when you know they really mean it.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“Sometimes I wanted to dance and laugh with my friends until midnight, and sometimes I wanted to screen all calls and hide away with a tragic novel and a bag of candy. Sometimes I spend an hour trying to pretty myself up, and sometimes I could barely be bothered to comb the knots out of my hair before I left the house.
Sometimes I wanted to know what it felt like to tell a boy all my secrets. Other times, that seemed as impossible as waking up one morning to find myself fluent in a foreign language.
Sometimes I felt better alone that I did with people. And sometimes that just felt lonely.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“I wished on the moon, for something I never knew.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“I don’t know what’s going to happen with us, Anna. But I’m always going to love you. That I know.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“I might have been in love with the idea of her. I might have loved the attention. But I didn’t love her, and it seemed incredibly unfair for me to let someone love me when I didn’t feel the same way in return”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“I looked for every loveliness. It all came true. I wished on the moon. . . for you.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“As I pedaled my bike slowly home, I realized one more thing. I didn’t have to wonder if I’d ever be passionate or happy again. I was happy, even as I tasted tears on my lips, along with Will’s last kiss; even though part of me dreaded this day, my first without Will.
I was happy because I knew I’d never forget Will. Even if parts of this summer faded from my memory over time, even if Will’s face grew vague in my mind, I’s never forget what it had felt like to be with him for a few short months. What it had been like to be sixteen and in love for the first time.
I wouldn’t forget that – not ever.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“I love you,” he said. He almost yelled it. “And I know that sounds crazy. That’s what you say at the beginning of something, not when it’s almost reached its end. But – I don’t care. I just want to be with you. Maybe it’ll only be for these next few weeks. Maybe it’ll be forever. We can’t know what’ll happen, Anna. All I know is I love you and…we should be together. We just have to be together. We need to be together.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“It’s taken a while, but I’m beginning to learn that sometimes it’s best not to say anything at all”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“It’s like if one part of my life goes well, then another has to go off the rails”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“I’ve missed you even more than I thought I would. And that’s saying something, because I thought I’d miss you a lot”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“I loved being so consumed by Will. Adored it. But I kind of hated it too, because I felt like a huge part of myself had been wrested from my control. I mean, sometimes you just want to make a peanut butter sandwich without being overcome by your own passion, you know?”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“Then there was your voice
Like a windup tin toy
Like the sweetest nails on a chalkboard
That I ever heard”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“Maybe when your big picture is in place, all those bumps in the road along the way get sort of smoothed over.”
― Michelle Dalton, Fifteenth Summer

“It was time to weather the bitter and embrace the sweet and suck the marrow out of all the time we had left.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“I am hopelessly, helplessly in love with you. Don’t you know that?”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“You noticed that?"
He nods. "I notice everything about you.”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“I’m pathetic.
I know this. But knowing it and being able to do something about it are two totally different things”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“Perfect is not only an illusion, it’s just no damn fun.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“It was thrillingly comfortable being with Will. But also uncomfortably thrilling.”
― Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer

“Tell him how you feel. You owe it to him and you owe it to yourself”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“But that’s easier said than done."
"All the great things are.”
― Michelle Dalton, Pulled Under

“Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing.”
― Michelle Dalton, Fifteenth Summer